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Sky King's Mental Playground
by Sky King
This is the free portion of Sky King's Mental Playground, where we start the fun and welcome you into the playground. To listen to all podcasts of Sky King's Mental Playground, sign up at skmp.supercast.com Propaganda, Art, Health, Regenerative Systems, Great Food, Economic Incentives, and building companies in an increasingly digital world. These concepts own my mind. This podcast is an opportunity to explore these ideas with world leaders, entrepreneurs, my homies, and people who generally excite or entertain me. It is called a playground for a reason. This podcast will be as fun as it is informative; we are tackling society's most pervasive issues, but in a way that we are undoubtedly going to fuck up, scribble on, and get hurt. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' hre
Episodes
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The Beautiful Struggle of Becoming an Artist with Wesley Jay
What if the music industry isn't built to reward great artists anymore? What if it's built to reward whoever plays the algorithm best? Musician Wesley Jay joins us to unpack a world where artists are pressured to become content creators, streaming platforms decide what their work is worth, and...
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How To Turn Being Unemployable Into a Career with Anthony Wynkoop
Anthony Wynkoop might be the most talented unemployable man in Austin. He's a stand-up comedian who rapped his way through Kill Tony, a musician making everything from indie rock to murder rap, and a hibachi chef who somehow turned cooking fried rice into 90 minutes of crowd work. Now he's…
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Building a Comedy Festival and Betting It All with Jake from Joke WRLD
Jake had never produced a live show before, then he built a comedy festival with 58 shows in two days. With ticket sales crawling, performers flying in, and the fear of more comedians than fans, the guy behind Joke WRLD found himself betting everything on a first swing that had no business…
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The War Against Friction with Nicholas Carr
The biggest danger of AI may not be that it becomes smarter than us. It may be that it makes us stop doing the hard things that make us human in the first place. Nicholas Carr breaks down how the internet trained us to trade contemplation for stimulation, why social media turns connection into...
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What Happens When AI Escapes Our Control by 2029 with Dr. Robert Epstein
In 1991, Dr. Robert Epstein ran the world’s first public Turing test competition and predicted computers would become humanity’s companions. He doesn’t believe that anymore. Now he warns that an AI fighting for its own survival could escape into the “internest” by 2029 and that humans may start…
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Losing Our Shared Reality Through Personalization with Prof. Joseph Turow
Personalization may be more dangerous than fake news. Fake news can be challenged in public. A reality built exclusively for you is nearly impossible to compare, debate, or even recognize. Professor Joseph Turow explains how media manipulation evolved from 19th-century peddlers and patent…
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The Business Of Comedy Against The Algorithm with Brent Gill
Everyone chasing virality is optimizing for the wrong number. That's the case Brent Gill, a stand-up comedian, show producer, and 20-year veteran of a business built almost entirely on word of mouth makes across this conversation, and the evidence is his own life. The internet convinced creators...
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Laughing Through Grief With LeMaire Lee
I sat down with LeMaire and this episode starts light, then gradually uncovers the bigger tension beneath it all: how do you stay creative, useful, and sane when the old rules no longer work and real life keeps interrupting the brand you've built? The result is a sharp, funny, and unexpectedly...
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How to Raise Free Thinkers Inside a Broken System with Hannah Frankman
Hannah Frankman skipped college, grew up homeschooled her whole life, and now spends her days convincing parents that everything they think they know about "good schools" is a lie they've been sold. I brought her back on to settle something that's been eating at me: is fixing education about more...
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Being More Japanese Than American with Egan Robinson
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPROBINSON What happens to a generation of American kids raised entirely on Japanese media once they're old enough to actually go there? Egan Robinson thinks we're carrying a "Japanese seed" inside us planted by Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, and PlayStation...
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When Anime Becomes Culture with Kaylynn
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPKAYLYNN Anime is not a niche hobby and it is definitely not “for kids" it’s one of the sharpest storytelling engines on the planet. Kaylynn, aka Anime with KK, has built a career, a cosplay business, and a K-pop dance trio around proving that theory...
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The WET Playground 2.0
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPWET I flew a plane through a thunderstorm when I was thirteen years old. My dad was asleep in the seat next to me, and all I wanted to do was get back to my Game Boy. That story is in here, and so is the story of losing him this year and how three…
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Chris Williamson on Audience Capture, Conspiracy Theories & Losing to Jordan Peterson at Top Golf
Chris Williamson is a podcaster, YouTuber, and Ex-Professional Party Boy. I am immensely grateful that Chris is on this earth. As a creator, I believe he is doing an insane amount to help young men make sense of the world, as a friend he has been a beautiful combination of exceedingly fun and...
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Becoming Present On Stage with Joe Begley
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPBEGLEY What if the thing killing creativity right now isn't talent or effort, but the simple fact that nobody has space to be bored anymore? Joe Begley and I start this one ranking the worst beers in America, what was supposed to be a loose…
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How To Build True Strength Without Taking Shortcuts with Larry Maloney
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPMALONEY What if the biggest problem with AI, Ozempic, productivity hacks, and modern self improvement is that they work too well? In a culture obsessed with skipping steps, Larry Maloney argues that the struggle is the point. Larry and I explore why...
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How Fatherhood, Physical AI, and a Failed VR Bet Built Evan Helda's Vision
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPHELDA Physical AI isn't a trend, it's the convergence of everything that came before it: computer vision, spatial computing, simulation, and now generative models building entire digital worlds to train robots that will fix the healthcare shortage,...
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Researching Creativity and Collecting Lessons with Billy Oppenheimer
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPOPPENHEIMER Billy Oppenheimer has spent years inside the minds of two of the most celebrated creatives alive, Rick Rubin and Ryan Holiday. Billy is also working on his first book, and what he shares about the process, the endless hunger for more…
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What Kuma Taught Me About Being a Father
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPSOLO War is the most entertaining thing humans have ever created, and that's not my opinion, that's physics. From Gilgamesh to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, we have never been able to look away. But something shifted. Social media removed the last bit...
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The Next Evolution Of Humanity with Razib Khan
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPKHAN What happens when a geneticist steps into the center of Austin’s techno-cultural renaissance and starts asking the questions everyone else is too afraid to touch? In this new episode of SKMP, Razib Khan joins us for a wild, deeply intelligent...
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Why the Future Is Already Here with Eric Jorgenson
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPJORGENSON Eric Jorgenson spent five years distilling the mind of the most consequential entrepreneur alive, and the result is The Book of Elon. This is a conversation of what it actually means to bet on the future: having kids, choosing missions,...
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Becoming the Chef You Were Always Supposed to Be with Ricardo
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPRICARDO Ricardo grew up watching cooks in his dad's Mexican joint in LA, dropped out of school, made some choices he'd rather leave in the past, and eventually decided he wasn't ready to go out like that. What followed was 18 years of cooking across...
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How an AI Experiment Turned into a Cash Machine and a High School for Young Entrepreneurs with Nat Eliason
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPNELIASON What if school, work, and success are all being redefined right now and most people are completely missing it? In this episode of Sky King’s Mental Playground, I sit down with entrepreneur and writer Nat Eliason to explore the future of...
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Pokémon Cards, Crypto & the Financialization of Culture with Morgan Leinwohl
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPLEINWOHL What if the real financial markets of the future aren’t stocks or real estate but Pokémon cards, NFTs, and the IP you grew up loving? In this episode of Sky King’s Mental Playground, I sit down with Morgan Leinwohl to break down the hidden...
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Why AI Is Changing Everything We Know About Work with David Kemmerer
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPKEMMERER What happens when AI, capitalism, and human creativity collide? In this episode, we sit down with David Kemmerer, an entrepreneur, musician, and co-founder of CoinLedger, to break down the real future of AI, content, and business. From...
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What Addiction Taught Me About Creativity with Chris Rogers
Listen to the podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPROGERS Chris Rogers almost drank himself to death. Today, he paints live in front of millions on Kill Tony and says sobriety made him a better artist than alcohol ever did. In this conversation, we go deep on addiction, suicidal ideation, and the myth…
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Autodidact and Entrepreneur on the Art of Being Self-Taught with Patrick Lyle
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPLYLE Most people drink coffee without thinking. Patrick Lyle thinks about everything: the grind size, the mineral content of the water, the pressure curve of an espresso shot. But this conversation isn’t just about better coffee. It’s about...
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Rage Against The Dying Of The Light with Michael Ridley
Listen to the podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPRIDLEY In this episode, I sit down with Austin comedian Michael Ridley to talk about what it really means to bet on yourself in a culture that feels like it’s collapsing into content and chaos. We get into everything — modern warfare as entertainment,...
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Popular Art Captures The Culture with Erick Godsey
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPGODSEY In this episode, Erick Godsey joins me for a deep dive into visionary art, psychosis, and the collective unconscious. From Neuromancer to late-80s Japanese anime, from Neon Genesis Evangelion to Annihilation, we unpack how art sometimes…
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How To Recover From A Car Crash Like A Biohacker with Abel James
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPJAMES In this episode, Abel James joins us for a deep and unfiltered conversation about recovery, resilience, and staying human in an increasingly automated world. Abel opens up about surviving a brutal car accident, navigating long-term physical and...
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Navigating the New Internet as a Human and an Artist with Zack Telander
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPTELANDER In this episode, Zack Telander joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about art, music, discipline, and staying human in an algorithmic world. Zack breaks down what it really takes to build a creative career without selling out from…
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The WET Playground
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPWET What starts as a chaotic crossover episode quickly turns into a surprisingly honest exploration of art, ambition, friendship, and identity. In this episode, the WET crew and Sky sit down to make predictions for 2026, but the conversation spirals...
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Processing Pain Through Music with Dawson Carroll
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPCAROLL Music isn’t just something we listen to, it’s how we process heartbreak, find meaning, and understand ourselves. In this episode, Dawson joins me for a conversation about art, identity, and what it actually means to create something that lasts...
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The Tension Within Creation with Muralist Bradford Maxfield
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPMAXFIELD In this episode, I sat down with renowned muralist and designer Bradford Maxfield (Bradlio1). This conversation goes far beyond art, it’s a deep dive into the psychology of creativity, the dark history of the Mexican border wars, and the...
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Becoming Yourself with Justin Nault
Listen to the full podcast: https://bit.ly/SKMPNAULT In this episode, Justin Nault returns to explore fatherhood, identity, and the pursuit of meaning in a world built on chaos. We talk about how becoming a dad redefines purpose, what true self-love looks like, and why most people mistake...
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Building an Antifragile Creator Career with Chris Griffin
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPGRIFFIN In this episode, Chris Griffin joins me to talk about his recent experience with cancel culture, the cost of honesty, and why so many creators from Australia and the UK are fleeing to America in search of real freedom. We explore the...
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Will We Survive the Financialization of Everything with Jared Nations
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPNATIONS Technology, culture, and consciousness collide in this conversation with Jared Nations — entrepreneur, investor, and modern philosopher of the digital age. We explore how crypto, AI, and the tokenization of everything are reshaping…
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Being Too Honest with Anthony Pappaly
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPPAPPALY I sat down with comedian and former Coast Guard officer Anthony Pappaly, a man whose story feels like a collision between discipline and chaos. We talked about how a military career turned into a journey through stand-up comedy, viral...
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Building Robots For A More Human Future with Micah Green
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPGREEN In today's episode, I sit down with Micah Green, a robotics founder redefining how humans and machines coexist. We dive into the future of automation, exploring how connected ecosystems of robots could transform everyday life not by...
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Leveraging Science Fiction to Make Decisions on AI, Cloning, and the Future of Humanity with Nathan Baugh
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPBAUGH In this deep dive, I sit down with Nathan Baugh to explore how science fiction isn't just entertainment, it's a philosophical warning system for humanity. We tackle the unsettling reality that predicting human reaction to new tech, like…
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Exploring the Light and Dark of Technology with LeMaire Lee
📌Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPLEE Comedy, culture, and chaos collide in this episode with LeMaire Lee — stand-up comic, podcaster, and one of the sharpest minds in the new wave of American comedy. We explore everything from internet absurdity to real human connection: why...
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Propaganda, Progress, and the Future of Nuclear Energy with Andrew Kirima
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPKIRIMA Nuclear energy has been one of the most misunderstood technologies of the last century. Fear, propaganda, and poor storytelling have turned one of the cleanest and most powerful energy sources into a cultural villain. But what if nuclear…
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Jesse Michels on the Nature of Reality
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPMICHELS In this episode, I sit down with Jesse Michaels for a deep dive into UFOs, the nature of reality, and the pursuit of truth. Jesse shares his fascinating experiences working with figures like Peter Thiel, as well as insights from history...
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Christ Is King but Egan Robinson Is the Shepherd of the Catholic Weeb
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPROBINSON Egan Robinson proves that the internet is an insanely magical place. He puts Kevin Kelly’s 1000 true fans idea into reality. Egan has built an audience and received 10’s of millions of views in the crazy crossover of Japanese culture /...
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Information Over Gossip with Jake from Joke WRLD
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPJAKE I had an absolute blast sitting down with Jake from Joke WRLD, the guy who’s turning comedy coverage into something as big and bold as ESPN. In this episode, Jake opens up about his journey from playing D3 sports in Ohio to building a media...
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Mike Eaton Loves His Mom
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPEATON In this episode, I sit down with comedian Mike Eaton as he dives into his life stories, from hilarious anecdotes about his mom's encounter with edibles to the complexities of the comedy scene. Discover his unique experiences and insights…
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Welcome To The World Athena with Caroline King
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPKING In this episode, we’re celebrating one whole year of being parents, and what a ride it’s been. We look back on the incredible and sometimes terrifying journey from the moment our daughter Athena was born to the day she turned one. We open…
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Michelin Award-Winning Ramen Chef on Finding the Balance Within the Bowl and Life
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPKRINSKY In today's episode, we are joined by Chris Krinsky, the innovative force behind Austin's Ramen Del Barrio, who reflects on the journey from a "pipe dream" to a culinary phenomenon. We explore his culinary journey, the challenges of…
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Neville Medhora Explains: Why Streamers Are 5 Years Ahead of All Other Creators
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPMEDHORA Join us in today's episode with Neville Medhora, as we unravels the future of content, monetization, and human connection in the digital age. This episode challenges conventional wisdom, exploring the power of direct monetization and...
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What Western Medicine Gets Wrong with Dr. Yusef Smith
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPYSMITH Welcome to the new episode of Sky King's Mental Playground! Our conversation touches on the differences between traditional medical practices and modern health and wellness trends. Yusef Smith, a medical doctor and health expert, sheds...
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David Perell on Curing the Internet's Sickness, Creating the Beauty, and the Death of the Soul
Listen to the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/SKMPPERELL Join us in this new episode as we dive deep into the pervasive influence of social media like X on our lives and creative output, with David sharing his personal struggles and advocating for "care" over "carelessness" in content creation....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is the free portion of Sky King's Mental Playground, where we start the fun and welcome you into the playground.
To listen to all podcasts of Sky King's Mental Playground, sign up at skmp.supercast.com
Propaganda, Art, Health, Regenerative Systems, Great Food, Economic Incentives, and building companies in an increasingly digital world.
These concepts own my mind. This podcast is an opportunity to explore these ideas with world leaders, entrepreneurs, my homies, and people who generally excite or entertain me.
It is called a playground for a reason. This podcast will be as fun as it is informative; we are tackling society's most pervasive issues, but in a way that we are undoubtedly going to fuck up, scribble on, and get hurt.
Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' hre
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This is the free portion of Sky King's Mental Playground, where we start the fun and welcome you into the playground. To listen to all podcasts of Sky King's Mental Playground, sign up at skmp.supercast.com Propaganda, Art, Health, Regenerative Systems, Great Food, Economic Incentives, and building...
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